A 55-year-old woman went to the public health clinic with a fever that had persisted for several days. Upon palpation of the neck, a registered nurse found several large lymph nodes
What is the nurse's best response to this patient upon palpating her lymph nodes? A. "There is no need to worry; enlarged lymph nodes are normal findings."
B. "Enlarged lymph nodes sometimes indicate an infection."
C. "Most people have a few enlarged lymph nodes."
D. "We need to follow up because the last patient with enlarged nodes had cancer."
B
Normally lymph nodes are not easily palpable. Lymph nodes that are large, fixed, inflamed, or tender indicate a problem such as local infection, systemic disease, or neoplasm.
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The nurse must establish the client's expected outcome to measure whether the client has achieved the expected behavior of nursing care and how successfully the client's short-term and long-term expected outcomes have been met. The nurse is reviewing the expected outcome for key characteristics. Which characteristics must be present in an expected outcome? 1 . Nurse oriented 2 . Specific 3 . Reasonable 4 . Measurable A) 1, 2, 3 B) 1, 2, 4 C) 1, 3, 4 D) 2, 3, 4
Avoid shouting when speaking with a patient who is hearing impaired.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)